Beautiful Girl

Monday morning we were getting ready to go to swim team practice. I had just fixed Madelyn's hair, and it was Miss Olivia's turn. She walked into my room and I said, "OK Olivia, come here so I can fix your hair. " She looked at me and said, "I no need to fix my hair, I just look beautiful." Then she turned and left the room. How do you argue with that?

After her proclamation, she took refuge with her brother. He was still in bed watching cartoons, so Olivia hopped in with him. By putting her hand there, she was telling me, "No pictures please." The paparazzi is just terrible around here!

Big Man!

Eli is getting SO big! He will be 7 months old tomorrow. He has now been crawling for almost 2 weeks and he's getting really good. The newest thing he likes to do is pull himself to a stand and then let go. He thinks it's hilarious! I can't believe he's getting so big. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy about it, I just can't believe how fast it's going.

It's swim team time!

Chandler is the one in the blue suit on the little platform thing

Madelyn and Chandler are both doing swim team this summer. They are both doing really well. Chandler did it last year, but this is Madelyn's first year. Chandler is not really fond of all the swimming back and forth, because it's a lot of work. Madelyn's group doesn't do as many laps as Chandler's so she's having a great time!

Spray Park

On Tuesday, May 20 I took Olivia and Elijah to Tempe Beach Park. It is such a cute place and if you go during the week it's not too busy. They have two water slides, two waterfalls, 3 water gun things, little dolphins to ride on, and just a bunch of places to splash. The forecast was for the temperature to reach 110. We went about 10:30 and it was already really HOT! Channel 12 news was actually there interviewing people on how they are managing to keep cool. We were actually interviewed. I think it was on the noon news report, but we were still out and about, so we missed it.

Anyway, the kids really liked it. Olivia hasn't been since last summer so she didn't remember it. She just ran all over the park splashing in the water. Elijah got carried around and he even sat in the water for a couple of minutes. I was surprised he liked it, because he HATES baths. He screams every time.

Here are some pictures from our outing...

Ice Blocking

Justin has been playing soccer on Friday nights for awhile now. Every time we go, the kids spend practically all of their time running up and down the big hills at the soccer complex. I thought it would be fun for them to go ice blocking. It's pretty self explanatory, but it's where you sit on a block of ice and slide down the hill.
The kids loved it! They went really fast. Madelyn, who usually complains when she gets slightly cold, never mentioned being cold once. She and Chandler were both soaked from the ice melting by the time we were done.

Don't they pose well!

Wheeeeee! Olivia thought it LOOKED fun, but she didn't want to try. She just loves running up and down the hills.

The only downside is that once you slide down, you have to push the ice back UP the hill.
They actually didn't mind very much.